Outgoing Governor M. Jodi Rell remains popular with Connecticut voters, according to a new poll released this morning by Quinnipiac University.
Rell’s public approval ratings are actually up with 64% of voters approving of the job Rell is doing. 30% disapprove of the Gov’s efforts.
Remarkably, only 33% of those polled said that they had heard much about the Dautrich Project scandal. Of that group, only 25% said that the scandal was a major concern to them.
The other big news in the poll is that Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz held Rell under 50% in a head-t0-head match-up. The Governor had a 46%-40% lead over the Secretary of the State. None of the other Democratic hopefuls, including Ned Lamont, did as well.
This news, though a bit of a moot point now, arguably gives Bysiewicz the early title of front runner in the Democratic contest.
Bysiewicz also posted a narrow lead in the Democratic primary, ahead of Mr. Lamont 26% to 23% with former Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy at a surprisingly weak 9%.
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I wrote here a couple weeks ago I didn’t think Rell wanted to deal with SustiNet and the hard budget cuts necessary for the 2011/12 budget.
No one likes to play the ogre but we need one until we can get a politician that will reform state government and its ability to deliver services.
I give Lamont, a lower Moody’s rating, an 8% income tax at the top and a 7% sales tax BEFORE SustiNet taxes the lead.
The good news: Rell’s stooges like Diane Warren at DOIT may get the first real review of their lives and have to compete against real men with real trench experience.
Twice a B and Lamont will likely buy the resume stuffing of the agency heads and VPs in the agencies. There is that hope that someone will assume what is being done now is wrong and dump them all–every last over-promoted agency head right through eery last over-promoted department head and all the over-promoted VPs of non-excellence.
Question. How did you become a VP of Information of Technology for the state?
Answer. Because no one else wanted the position and there was a hiring freeze.
True story.
That’s the way promotions are done under Rell. Your pet dog would be an executive at the state if he or she sat tied to a leash long enough in a completely different department with a completely different skill set than the one required. Transferable skills. Didn’t you know a dog is competent cat because of transferable skills?. And then there’s the mental illness exclusion and promotion preference for those poor sufferers. I can’t wait to see how Twice a B and Lamont handle reality.
This democratic battle is going to be quite the three-way showdown now that Ned is in. I bet we see all three (Malloy, Bysiewicz, and Lamont) all start pushing much harder in the next few days.
Agreed. And Bysiewicz is a brutal when it comes to a knife fight, so Malloy and Lamont better look out…
>>And Bysiewicz is a brutal when it comes to a knife fight,
Famously too.
Which is why Republicans should all root for her candidacy.
Sooner or later she’ll act like herself, and since virtually everyone now has a camera/video phone such a splendid performance will make it to Youtube, then cable television, then some 501c will start running it day and night just to be sure every voter sees it.
I was a supporter of Governor Rell until she pulled the Charter Oak Hoax, bragging about health care reform, when it was, in fact, a total sham. Thousands of Connecticut residents jumped at the hope offered by Charter Oak, believing the Governor that a solution was there. It was not. There is no insurance plan when there are no providers. You can’t repackage Husky pediatricians and use that as a plan for adults. She did it purely for political reasons, to quell the outcry for Universal Health Care, and she wounded those of us without insurance deeply. I’m glad to see her and her ghost writer, Linda Moody go.
Rell should have stayed in. The Dems proudly run losers like Corzine with a9% approval rating, and even Paterson, at 19% (!!!) is promising to run. She’s at 64%, she would have cruised. But she’s not about numbers — she’s done, she calls it a day and moves on. Classic difference between Dems and GOPers — for Dems, politics is their whole existence, for Republicans, it is something we do on the side.
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